When little Aiden toddled up our daughter Johanna and asked to play with her Elmo ball, he was, admittedly, very sweet and polite. I think his exact words were, “Have a ball, peas [sic]?” And I’m sure you were very proud of him for using his manners.

To be sure, I was equally proud when Johanna yelled, “No! Looter!” right in his looter face, and then only marginally less proud when she sort of shoved him

This is a taste of a wonderful spoof on Randian Objectivism brought to the playground. It’s well wortha  read.

So today is Friday the 13th and frankly that makes me happy. Fridays are good days in general. The weekend is kicking off, I’ll hang out with my friends and play games. The business is less busy the freeways are less congested. (There are actually fewer accidents on the road on Friday the 13th than on other days.)

So if you are huddling in a cave on this day, well that neither picks my pocket nor does it break my leg so have fun. Me? I’m going to enjoy today.

If you are a fan of the original Star Trek television series, you should check the link in my blog roll to Star Trek re-watch.

Two bloggers over at TOR SF are watching every episode of Star Trek (The Original Series) in broadcast order and bloggin about each episode.

It’s almost better for the bad episodes as much as for the great ones.

I have really enjoyed the feature and it, strangely, has me looking forward to Season 3.

I had a lot to say and frankly I still do, but I am too tired to say it.

I am continuing to make progress on the final version of Cawdor. I finished editing Chapter 5 tonight. Could have pushed on to Chapter 6, that there’s a new scene that needs to be composed for the middle of that chapter and I am not wuite up to it.

Oh, if you have an interest in fashion you might visit the new blog on my blog roll, any second now. It’s run by a friend of mine from my day-job. Pay her a visit.

My headache continued into Monday and by mid-day it had blossomed into a migraine. I went home early from work, tried to sleep. (Failed because of repair work being done to the unit above ours.) Still by 5pm thee migraine had subsided into just a regular headache.

In the evening I visited our local speciality bookstore, Mysterious Galaxy, for the first meeting of a writers’ workshop group there.

Wow, there were something on the order of 23 people. I suspect we’ll have a fairly steep die-off before we settle down into a stable workshop. (Hopefully I will not be one of the die offs.)

TTFN

But I’ll share a couple of tid-bits of information.

One: The 2010 remake of the Crazies. Not a bad film, held together fairly well, went more for suspense and thrilled than gore — a good choice – nice characters and only a little bit of the Scooby-Doo at the end.

Two: Having a headache so not much writing, but I am continuing to make progress, just slowly.

Three: Got as copy of Planet OF The Vampires off eBay for $5. (Thanks Melissa!)

Sorry I have been away a few days, nothing major just busy and enjoying regular sleeping again. I’ve started passing chapters over to my sweetie-wife for final copy-edit. I hope to have a beta-read version of Cawdor finished in about 4 weeks.

I spotted this bit of good news over at Digital Bits. It looks like visionary  Director Guillermo Del Toro, (Hellboy, Hellboy 2, Pan’s Labyrinth, and more.) will be making his dream project, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s, At The Mountains Of Madness. It is also reported that James Cameron will be producing. That puts real muscle behind the movie. (And if you saw the American version of Solaris you also know that Cameron is willing to let a director be while acting as producer.)

With the condo full of fans and blowers there was simply no way for me to watch a movie in comfort this Sunday night.  I did watch Alien with the audio commentary switched on, but nothing else. Hopefully to blowers and fans will be removed tomorrow. If they are then I will get my first good night’s sleep since Thursday tomorrow night.

Today has been a  day of headaches and irritations. However, I did finish the ink-on-paper edits to the first draft of Cawdor and tomorrow I will start entering those edits and writing the 14 or so missing scenes.

We had water damage to our condo, not a lot but real damage. (A leak from teh unit above ours.) For the entire weekend we have heaters and blowers drying out walls.

This has made our home less than it usual inhabitable site. It is loud and hot. Do not expect a lot of posting from me this weekend.